Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Blandford Forum. You may be able to find further references to Blandford Forum in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Blandford	parish	Bartholomew
BLANDFORD	a subdistrict, a district, and a division	Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Blandford Forum within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Celia Fiennes	Wiltshire and Dorset	4
Daniel Defoe	Letter 3, Part 2: Salisbury and Dorset	2
William Camden	Dorset and Somerset	1
Charles Wesley	May 17 - Aug. 28, 1743: Bristol to Newcastle, then Cornwall	1
Celia Fiennes	1698 Tour: Exeter to London	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Langton Long Blandford	0	2
Bryanston	2	1
Littleton	0	2
Blandford St Mary	0	2
Pimperne	0	3
Knighton	0	2
Charlton Marshall	0	3
Stourpaine	0	2
Monkton Up Wimborne	0	1
Tarrant Keynston	0	2
Durweston	0	2
Lazerton	0	2
Tarrant Rawston	0	2
Tarrant Crawford	1	2
Spetisbury	0	2
Tarrant Monkton	0	3
Coombs Ditch	0	2
Winterborne Stickland	0	2
Iwerne Stepleton	0	2
Hanford	0	1